It has now come to light that the Pakistan Army-backed terrorists may have scouted Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadows using commercial geospatial images. These geospatial images were acquired by a Pakistani-American entity whose founder has criminal and nuclear-tech proliferation antecedents in the United States. The images were likely shared with on-gr
Russia’s 2024 Minerals Development Strategy refers to the need to complete ‘the integration of the mineral-resource complexes of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic, Zaporizhzhia oblast and Kherson oblast into the Russian economy’. The strategy further mentions the occupied territories’ deposits of ‘coal, iron and
low-carbon energy market. The Green Energy Corridor offers Ankara the opportunity to leverage its geographic position and existing infrastructure to facilitate the export of renewable electricity to European markets, thereby strengthening its geopolitical significance. Azerbaijan stands to benefit from this partnership by diversifying its energy ex
Key Milestones in the Formation of the Energy Partnership The first step toward the eventual four-party agreement took place in August 2024 in Istanbul, when Bulgarian Energy Minister Vladimir Malinov held talks with Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar. (4) Their discussions focused on drafting an intergovernmental memorandum aimed at estab
The state as an abstract collective does not make decisions about peace and war, but real people, with certain passions, ambitions, and physical and psychological limitations, in fact, make decisions. Consequently, at the individual level of analysis, explanations for war can be found in the nature and behavior of individuals (i.e., statesmen and p